The Tunisian General Labor Union holds meetings of its administrative body in Hammamet to discuss the general situation in the country, and the Popular Current Party holds a meeting of its committee to discuss the latest developments.
This comes at a time when the Tunisian Ennahda movement has held the country's authorities fully responsible for the safety of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, who has been detained for 3 days, after he was transferred to intensive care.
For its part, the Tunisian Labor Union in Hammamet is holding a meeting of its administrative body today and tomorrow;
To discuss the general situation in the country and the Union's position on various developments, the Popular Current Party - which is supportive of President Qais Saeed's actions - holds a meeting of its Central Committee;
To discuss the party's position on the latest political situation in the country.
Al-Jabali is in intensive care
On the other hand, lawyer and leader of the National Salvation Front in Tunisia, Samir Dilou, said that former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali was transferred from his detention to intensive care at Habib Thamer Hospital in the capital, Tunis.
Dilo added, in a post on his Facebook page, that the security authority holding Al-Jabali refused to receive the medicines that his family brought him to his detention facility.
The Tunisian Ennahda movement held - on Saturday evening - the country's authorities fully responsible for the safety of Jebali, and said in a brief statement, "We express our full solidarity with the fighter and the head of the first democratically elected government in the history of Tunisia, Engineer Hammadi Jebali, who is patiently facing the militants and their steadfastness the outdated repressive methods that treat him." It has the powers of a coup.
"We hold President Qais Saeed and his Minister of Interior (Tawfiq Sharaf al-Din) fully responsible for any harm that may befall the fighter Hammadi al-Jabali," she added.
His defense had announced earlier that Jabali had started a hunger strike since his arrest.
The Ministry of Interior stated - in a press conference the day before yesterday - that Al-Jabali's arrest came within the framework of the investigation into the file of the Nama Charitable Society, headed by his brother-in-law, against the background of suspicions of money laundering and receiving huge sums of money from abroad.
And last Thursday, Jebali's official Facebook page announced that a security squad had detained him in Sousse, seized his mobile phone and that of his wife, and took him to an unknown destination.
It is noteworthy that Jebali - affiliated with the Ennahda movement - headed the Tunisian government from December 2011 until February 2013, and ran for the presidency of 2019.
Judges extend strike
On the other hand, the Coordination of Judges in Tunisia decided to extend the judges' strike for the fourth consecutive week.
The coordination said in a statement that the decision to extend the strike was caused by the lack of interaction of the presidency and the Ministry of Justice with the judges' movements, and the failure to reverse the decision to dismiss 57 judges.
The coordination called on all judges to defend the values of the independent judiciary in order to restore guarantees of its independence and prestige, according to the text of the statement.